Ein Drittel der Öffentlichkeit glaubt, dass die BBC eine linke Voreingenommenheit hat
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/11/third-of-public-believes-bbc-has-left-wing-bias/
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Ein Drittel der Öffentlichkeit glaubt, dass die BBC eine linke Voreingenommenheit hat
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/11/third-of-public-believes-bbc-has-left-wing-bias/
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Is it the third of the population that is right-wing leaning?
Isn’t the saying that if the left think you’re too far right leaning, and the right thing you’re too far left leaning you’ve got it spot on? My personal view is that Farage and Reform get too much air time in comparison to Lib dems and the greens so overall I don’t think there’s too much of an issue
>Some 31 per cent said the BBC was [biased in favour of Left-wing views](https://archive.is/o/Fh5qA/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/10/apologise-white-middle-class-life-inside-bbc/), while 19 per cent believed the corporation to be biased in favour of Right-wing views.
>Only 19 per cent said the BBC was not politically biased at all, while 31 per cent of respondents said they did not know.
Given how much the right wing hammer home the lefty bias BBC narrative I would suggest that means they’re nailing it.
Best move davie and gibb did, produce one of the most right leaning biased coverage with stacked panels, selected audiences and one sided interviews…whilst claiming they need to be more right leaning due to a left bias!
Corbyn, Farage, Lineker, Israel.. Keunssberg, Raffi Berg, Tim Davie and on and on and on
>public believes
the evidence proves otherwise
Just because the BBC air some programmes that have black people or show gay people kissing, people accuse them of being “left wing” or Woke. Politically they are right wing or at the very least capitalist. The BBC do their best to slander any left wing politician whilst giving more time than they should to right wing politicians.
I know/knew people who worked in BBC News and one of the metrics they used to assess bias is the amount of complaints they received accusing them of being left/right. It traditionally broke even which they took as proof that they were doing impartiality right.
Their big problem now, really, is that people now lie with absolutely impunity so to be ‚impartial‘ in a topic is to often present absolute bullshit as an opposing view. Treating ‚both sides‘ seriously inherently gives validation to absolutely absurd positions.
‚Here is Oxford university professor of astronomy saying the sun comes up in the morning and here is some right wing crank from the daily mail who is saying its a spotlight put up there by lizard people‘
So two thirds think they aren’t?
But seriously, this is a „snap poll“ right after a major news story. It’s an obvious attempt by the Telegraph to continue to try to damage the BBC.
31% say biased left,
19% say biased right,
19% say no bias,
31% don’t know.
Those seem like poll numbers you’d expect for a network that was unbiased?
Having consumed the BBC for decades I’d say the issue is less left-right and more a lack of detail.
The BBC is too focused on representing every view with balance that it doesn’t interrogate what is being said and drop that representation when what is said can be demonstrated to be false.
Not doing so produces a low quality tit for tat approach where lies and uncritically amplified. Those who know how to game this system get over-represented which then magnifies the issue over time.
a third thinks it is right wing bias and a third don’t care, the other 1% doesn’t care. What is fascinating about this is if this was any other news channel editing footage to fit a political bias that would be business as normal when BBC does it theres a meltdown.
That’s actually pretty good tbh, 1/3rd of the population is right of centre.
I’m coming from this from a left wing perspective but personally, I don’t think the BBC has ignored right wing views especially when it comes to politics. The beeb has a Reform MP on TV every week while the Liberal Democrats in comparison are never on even though they have more MP’s. Nigel Farage has also practically been platformed by the BBC due to his constant appearances on QT over the years.
The only show that I can honestly remember from recent memory batting me over the head with what you would call „wokeness“ is Doctor Who but I think that’s more of an issue with the show having shit writing.
The only way I could view the BBC as having a right wing bias as if I look at it through the lens of a reform voter who a) doesn’t like being challenged on anything and b) finds it uncomfortable seeing someone who doesn’t look like them on TV. To that point, I think some people just need to understand that not all Television reflects them, grow up and maybe watch something else.
The thing that REALLY winds me up with things like this is the amount of pure morons that simply *do not have their own opinion* and just recycle the absolute rubbish they’ve heard on social media, which unfortunately seems to go pretty viral… And they tend to be right wing
Edit: corrected a typo (thing – > things)
What an absolutely farcical headline. So the minority that want all their media to have a right wing bias?? Is the Telegraph claiming that as some kind of victory?? What a joke of a publication that rag has become.
the senior appointments had such close links with the conservative party and there is such well documented bias against left wing politics during the corbyn years particularly. That’s before we get to the over reliance on Farage and his parties for so-called balance when they weren’t polling significantly with the general public. This is all a Trump-manufactured lie.
Left-wing bias? That must be why they keep putting Nigel Farage on Question Time…Oh!…Hang on a minute…
So two thirds dont, thats a pretty underwhelming statistic
I’m fairly sure a third of the public also believes Nigel Farrage could do the job of PM.
**Survey results on perceived BBC political bias**
|Response option|Percentage|
|:-|:-|
|BBC biased (total)|50%|
|- Biased to the Left|31%|
|- Biased to the Right|19%|
|BBC not politically biased|19%|
|Don’t know|31%|
Source: According to this Telegraph article, which quotes a YouGov poll of 4921 people.
[Actual data breakdown here](https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53363-is-the-bbc-biased-what-the-public-think-following-the-davie-and-turness-resignations)
A third think it is biased to the left. One in five think it is biased to the right.
>Majority of public believes BBC doesn’t have a left wing bias
31% said left wing bias
19% said right wing bias
19% said no bias
31% selected „I don’t know“
Not reading the article but I assume this is from yesterday’s YouGov poll. It’s close but 31% is not a third. 19% said it had a right wing bias, 19% said the BBC had no bias and 31% don’t know. Put simply 69% don’t think it has a left wing bias.
This means that two thirds of the public do not have this beliefs/ opinion .
Do the one third of the population then consider REFORM to be LEFT OR RIGHT biased ?
If ONLY it actually was, and wasn’t just another right-wing mouthpiece. The British Bullshitting Corporation. 🤮
Man, the Telegraph is really stroking that hate boner for the BBC at the moment aren’t they.
The „left wing“ bias of the BBC:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/16092/production/_100485209_corbyn3.jpg.webp
Their right wing bias:
https://www.indy100.com/politics/nigel-farage-question-time-how-many
very marginally left of centre
[https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/)
However, if you look into the report this is due to a right lean on business, immigration, politics, and religion. elsewhere they’re more left leaning.
So if you’re right aligned, you likely see the bbc as left leaning. and if you’re left aligned you probably see it as a bit more right leaning.
which if i’m being honest is completely fine. the credibility is the really important bit, and the bbc has it in buckets. Though it would be really bloody weird to have a station that’s dedicated to a particular viewpoint (I’m looking at you gbeebies).
I’d also bet money on there being a third of the public that also believed the Beeb has a Right-wing bias and has been giving Reform an easy pass.
I always assumed it had a govt bias, whichever way that leaned.
Not just BBC, the society itself and the democracies seem to be leaning towards the left.
Well: https://youtu.be/EjPlfUt4S9U?si=UlInb4v3gp7C9qz2
Obviously I believe everything the torygraph puts to print.
I think the easiest way to find out if someone has a left or right bias. Ask them if they think the bbc is left or right. What ever they choose they believe in the opposite
They have been caught red handed editing clips, repeatedly hiring “journalists” who praise Hitler to report on Israel and to not publish stories that were negative about Hamas on BBC Arabic.
The facts kind of speak for themselves
Super Hans: „People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people“
Impression I get is that people in general think the BBC is biased against their own political perspective.
I personally don’t think the BBC is biased either way, but I do think it struggles with maintaining impartiality for individual segments or programmes. Question Time is a good example, there’s the obvious point of Nigel Farage amassing 38 appearances on the show compared to Jeremy Corbyn’s 3, but it’s worth looking at the non-politician panelists as well.
Between 2014 and 2023 both Isabel Oakeshott (Spectator, Daily Mail, GB News, Talk V) and Julia Hartley-Brewer (Spectator, Telegraph, Talk Radio/TV) have appeared on QT thirteen times. Kate Andrews (IEA/Spectator) and Tim Stanley (Telegraph/Spectator) have both appeared twelve times, and Camilla Tominey (Express/Telegraph/Spectator) has appeared ten times. That means for at least 60 episodes The Spectator has received representation on Question Time.
Cardiff University’s research found that in that nine year period, the most frequent non-political guests were nearly all affiliated with right wing news outlets and none wrote for left wing outlets. After Tominey, Anne McElvoy (Economist/Politico) and Theo Paphitis appeared eight times. Fraser Nelson (Spectator/Telegraph) Melanie Phillips (The Times), Merryn Somerset Webb (Money Week), Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday/Spectator), Piers Morgan (ITV, Talk TV, Daily Mail) all appeared seven times.
There is simply no comparable representation from the left. The most frequently featured writers from the left were Novara’s Ash Sarkar who appeared six times, and former Guardian columnist Giles Fraser who appeared five times.
In terms of political appearances, there is more balance but there still appears to be a bias towards the political right. The QT audience is bound by strict impartiality rules and I believe the show does a good job at selecting an audience that is representative of the UK, but the same cannot be said for the panelists. I think a recent example of this stark disconnect was the episode aired on the 9th October in Shrewsbury.
This is hilarious I love how they have separated us that much when the BBC has been caught lying in front of everyone the left still make it about reform 🫡
Or… Two thirds of the public do not believe the BBC has a left-wing bias.
A lot of ppl now think left wing means being ok with women presenting Match of the day.
But they shuttered a bunch of left leaning shows after Boris installed that director general.
And since then right wing focussed political parties have had far more screentime than they did previously.
It’s not left leaning at all. Mostly facts, and if facts are left leaning and you don’t like that, maybe take a look at yourself.
The country is left leaning compared to the US particularly now the US has gone full Nazi. Let’s not change the standard line like they have over there. BBC is pretty middle of the road tbh. I’d say slightly right leaning.